United Kingdom, Aug. 14 -- Sir Simon Russell Beale feels "normal" amid his cancer battle.

The House of the Dragon actor revealed in April he had been diagnosed with colon cancer last year, and as he prepares for his ninth month of chemotherapy, which he hopes will be his last, he insisted he doesn't feel ill.

He told The Times newspaper: "I feel fine. I feel normal.

Simon - who kept his health battle secret for eight months after dropping out of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of Titus Andronicus at the Hampstead Theatre in London in September due to "ill health" - starts rehearsals next week for a new stage production, I'll Be Seeing You, in which he plays Liberace, and knows he will find out then if the chemo has affec...